Nela Kelter

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My sweet radical botanist.

PSA: Please take care of my bees!

Let me start with a thank you, to all who interacted with her and made the experience of playing as her more full. I don't want to list character names because I don't want to forget anyone, just know that if you had a moment with Nela I appreciated it!
Nela was a lot of things, zealot, amateur herbalist, friend, crazy person pointed in the right direction, an unsettlingly cheery creature, a slightly dumb hermit in a cave.
She was my major return to EFU, after a long time away. I read through the wiki, tried some stuff, and I liked the things clerics had going for them, so I read through the wiki a bit more and found Kula. From there I knew I wanted to play someone straightforward while I was dipping my toes back in, so I asked myself what would it be like to be someone utterly and completely devout, so convinced that every action she took was divined by her deity that she could do no wrong.... until the end. In the end I was trying to play out a crisis of faith of sorts, I would have been okay surviving, but she needed time away from people show she ran out into the jungle, I think in many ways she was okay dying there.


Her gear wasn't all that interesting aside from her weapon, but everyone saw it's 'clones' from raids there isn't much to show lol.

For those that did not hear her backstory. She lost her mother when she was born, but was told that is who she got her white hair from so she kept it well. Her home village had a member of the Kulamet, which is where she first learned of the Wyld. The oasis on which the village was built around dried up. In a crisis of faith, the kulamet, who Nela saw as a mentor, took his own life. The village fell to shambles and Nela and her father took to the wastes. Nela's father was eventually killed by bandits, and in that moment Nela connected with the Wyld, understanding the fleeting but beautiful nature of life. Granted divine intervention she killed the bandits as a young girl barely into her teens.

Perhaps because of the tragedy, perhaps divine inspiration, perhaps because she was a broken person; Nela took to faith with fervor and violence. Her philosophy was simple, if you were kind to me and respected the sanctity of life clearly the Wyld wished for me to be kind to you, if you were neither of those things you were to be culled. She embraced violence because it felt comfortable to her, and she connected with the teachings of the Wyld that life was meant to ebb and flow. She was cheery because she believed her life was perfect, that everything was as the Wyld willed it, she had boundless perfect purpose.

She was a lot of fun to play, I think my favorite running jokes with her were things like:
"Oh, I can't read"
Or, "I live in a cave"
I think specifically one of my favorite lines was in response to Kiran talking about building regulations, and Nela in a panic saying "My cave is supposed to have doors?!"

I tried the sermon thing, because it felt like a cleric-y thing to do, I always felt like I was very boring, but I appreciate those that came along!

Thanks for hanging out with her! Here are some screenshots!

Her morning routine, specifically right before Bet Nappahi. But she did this at every reset.

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Being a good little cleric and spreading the faith. Teaching Garen, converting Theo.

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Maqqari, always being willing to educate my little dumb zealot. Actual slight lore spoiler stuff in here nothing crazy though.

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Her final conversation. When Faith asked "How are you doing?" and for the first time perhaps ever her answer wasn't great or amazing. For the first time Nela really didn't know how to feel.

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This last one isn't a screenshot it's just some sentimental IRL stuff about why Nela was important to me.

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Years ago, towards the beginning of chapter four, my brother told me about how this old game we used to play was still alive and kicking, and that it had these cool servers online with groups of people and dms and all this. I watched him play in chapter four, though he had been on the server as far back as chapter two or maybe even earlier. That's how I got hooked into EFU. We played for a few years together taking breaks here and there. We would spend hours and hours on the server, and chatting in discord. Then a couple of years ago he passed away. Trying to play EFU hurt, so I stepped away for a while. Eventually though in a time in my life that I felt very lonely, I remembered EFU, I tried a character build or two, workshopped some things, and eventually made Nela. Playing as Nela has brought back a tidal wave of feelings and memories that I will be eternally grateful for, thank you all, DMs and players, from the bottom of my heart. It felt like the old times with my brother.
If any old timers read this the most common names for my brother's characters were things like:
Kain
Kahn
Kahnrath

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Cheers!
I would love to see any screenshots you have!

[Poolson]

Oh shit, I almost missed this!

Yeah, Nela was a real one to kick it with. I adored her. I appreciate you, big chief, for sticking with her to the end.

[Egon the Monkey]

RIP fellow member of Batshit Herbalism Club. I'm so sad we never managed to pull off the Improvised Bearstrike, I had one all set up to go for Bet Nappahi 🤣.

Really solidly played chaplain that reflected a lot of what I think is great about the Wyld as a concept. Definitely an inspiration for a future Kulamet!

[Dugs]

Didn't have a ton of moments with Nela, but she left an impact on Rhuk Nor. Great PC!

[Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi]

Thank you for taking care of that ancient shrine! A great example of a Kulamet. I had tremendous fun in our conversations.

The bees will remain as long as there are caretakers to keep them.

[Travburg]

Nela was one of Garen's earliest close friends in the short month he'd been around before she died. She taught him much and I loved the long talks at that table, and the one by the pilgrim shortly before leaving for Bet Nappahi. He regrets not being with her in that jungle after saying they'd be together in Bet Nappahi through it all, but she said she would wander, and he bade her be careful... I think it is so poignant the talk they had and how Nela told him the Kulamet do not mourn, for they are everything, everything is them, it's just returning to the earth. Then, she died and all he could do was mourn as everyone hacked her vine zombie to bits before his eyes. She will be missed.

(Also big props for always giving me vestment, magic weapon, and animals on all the raids, you're real for that lol.)

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